“RFID tags may be vulnerable to viruses.”, say computer science researchers. (
RFID info)
No RFID viruses have been released yet but RFID tags have the characteristics to be engineered to exploit vulnerabilities in bank-end system. The attack methods can be SQL injection or buffer overflow attack.
Patick Simpson, a master’s student, took only four hours to write a proof-of-concept, self-replicating RFID virus, which is small enough to fit on a RFID tag with as little as 114 byes of memory.
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Computerworld]
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Liew Cheon Fong is the author of LiewCF.com, he's a Malaysian. He was born on 19 August 1980 in Kajang, Selangor but grew up in Kluang, Johor.
Liew graduated from Tunku Abdul Rahman College, with a Bachelor’s degree in Information System Engineering. Liew worked as a programmer and also developed e-learning websites for an IT company. He also worked as webmaster for a local cosmetic company.
Currently, Liew is a full time blogger, one of the very first few Malaysians who blog for living. Beside blogging, Liew is also a web development freelancer.
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